Lauri Bonacorsi is an American ice dancer

Ice dancing

Ice dancing is a form of figure skating which draws from the world of ballroom dancing. It was first competed at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, but did not become a Winter Olympic Games medal sport until 1976....

. With partner Travis Mager

Travis Mager

Travis Alexander Mager is an American ice dancer. With partner Lauri Bonacorsi, he is the 2011 U.S. Junior silver medalist.- Career :Bonacorsi and Mager officially teamed up in late May 2008....

, she is the 2011 U.S. Junior silver medalist

2011 United States Figure Skating Championships

The 2011 United States Figure Skating Championships were a national figure skating competition during the 2010–2011 season. Skaters competed for the title of U.S. national champion in men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating and ice dancing on the senior, junior, and novice levels...

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Career

Bonacorsi moved from St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...

 to Plano, Texas

Plano, Texas

Plano is a city in the state of Texas, located mostly within Collin County. The city's population was 259,841 at the 2010 census, making it the ninth-largest city in Texas and the 71st most populous city in the United States. Plano is located within the metropolitan area commonly referred to as...

 in 2007. She spent the 2007–08 season in search of a partner. Mager found her on IcePartnerSearch and they tried out together in February and April. Bonacorsi and Mager officially teamed up in late May 2008. She relocated to Maryland to train with him.

Bonacorsi and Mager won the 2009 U.S. novice ice dancing

2009 United States Figure Skating Championships

The 2009 United States Figure Skating Championships were the United States Figure Skating Championships of the 2008-2009 figure skating season. They were a national championship to determine the national champions of the United States. In addition to determining the national champions, the event...

 title. They won the bronze medal at the 2009 JGP Lake Placid. In May 2010, it was reported they had changed coaches to Natalia Linichuk

Natalia Linichuk

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 and Gennadi Karponosov at the IceWorks Skating Complex in Aston, Pennsylvania.

In the 2010–11 season, Bonacorsi and Mager won the bronze medal at the 2010 JGP Brasov Cup in Romania. They won silver on the junior level at the U.S. Championships

2011 United States Figure Skating Championships

The 2011 United States Figure Skating Championships were a national figure skating competition during the 2010–2011 season. Skaters competed for the title of U.S. national champion in men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating and ice dancing on the senior, junior, and novice levels...

 and placed 11th at the 2011 World Junior Championships

2011 World Junior Figure Skating Championships

The 2011 World Junior Figure Skating Championships was an international figure skating competition during the 2010–2011 season. Commonly called "World Juniors" and "Junior Worlds", the event crowned the World Junior Champions in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and...

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Current 2011-12 season. September 2011, Bonacorsi and Mager won the silver medal at the 2011 Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Brisbane in Australia. In October 2011 they won the bronze medal at the 2011 Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Walter Lombardi Trophy Milan in Italy.
Bonacorsi and Mager are the first alternates to the 2011 Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Finals in Quebec City, Canada, December 2011.

Personal Life

Bonacorsi attended the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

 her senior year of high school, and graduated from Radnor High School

Radnor High School

Radnor High School is the only public high school in Radnor Township, Pennsylvania and is part of the Radnor Township School District. It lies along the Pennsylvania Main Line, a collection of highly affluent Philadelphia suburbs...

 in Radnor, PA in June 2011. She is currently deferring a year before returning to the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

 where she is majoring in International Relations.

Programs

(with Mager)

Season	Short dance Short dance The short dance is a segment of an ice dancing competition. It was approved by the June 2010 International Skating Union congress and instituted beginning in the 2010–2011 figure skating season...	Free dance Free dance (figure skating) The free dance is a part of an ice dancing competition. It is the second part of the competition to be contested, after the short dance.-Structure and content:...
2011–2012	Cha Cha: Chilly Cha Cha by Jessica Jay Rhumba: Besame Mucho Bésame Mucho "Bésame Mucho" is a Spanish language song written in 1940 by Mexican songwriter Consuelo Velázquez.-Inspiration:According to Velázquez herself, she wrote this song even though she had never been kissed yet at the time, and kissing as she heard was considered a sin.She was inspired by the piano...   performed by Nana Mouskouri Nana Mouskouri Nana Mouskouri , born Ioánna Moúschouri on October 13, 1934, in Chania, Crete, Greece, is a Greek singer who has sold about 300 million records worldwide in a career spanning over five decades, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. She was known as Nána to her friends and...	Close to You by Sandra and Tony Alessi
2010–2011	My Sweet and Tender Beast by Eugen Doga Eugen Doga Eugen Doga is a Moldovan/Romanian composer. After the fall of the Soviet Union he lives in Moscow, Russia.-Biography:Doga was born on March 1, 1937 in the village of Mocra in the Rîbniţa district of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic...	From The Mask The Mask The Mask is a Dark Horse comic book series created by writer John Arcudi and artist Doug Mahnke, and based on a concept by publisher Mike Richardson. The series follows a magical mask which imbues the wearer with reality-bending powers and physical imperviousness, as well as bypassing the wearer's... : Cuban Pete by Jose Norman This Business of Love by H. Hersh Hey Pachuco Royal Crown Revue

Competitive highlights

(with Mager)

Event	2008–2009	2009–2010	2010–2011	2011–2012
World Junior Championships World Junior Figure Skating Championships The World Junior Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which younger figure skaters compete for the title of World Junior Champion...			11th
U.S. Championships United States Figure Skating Championships The United States Figure Skating Championships is figure skating competition held annually to crown the national champions of the United States. The competition is sanctioned by U.S. Figure Skating. In the U.S. skating community, the event is often referred to informally as "Nationals".Skaters...	1st N.	6th J.	2nd J.
Junior Grand Prix, Italy				3rd
Junior Grand Prix, Australia				2nd
Junior Grand Prix, Romania			3rd
Junior Grand Prix, U.K.			5th
Junior Grand Prix, U.S.		3rd
Junior Grand Prix, Germany		9th

• N. = Novice-level J. = Junior-level

External links

• Lauri Bonacorsi & Travis Mager at Icenetwork
• Lauri Bonacarsi & Travis Mager at Ice-dance.com
• Lauri Bonacorsi & Travis Mager JGP Milan Italy YouTube video